Another day, another Doctor Who rumour – and today we are exploring the possibility of the 12th Doctor being a woman – again!

Ever since current Time Lord Matt Smith revealed his intention to bow out of the hit BBC family sci-fi entertainment show during this year’s Christmas Special, speculation has been rife about just who could possibly take his place.
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Former EastEnders star, Alex Ferns, has been cast in a new ITV drama, The Widower.

Alex, as fans of the hit BBC1 soap will know, played the cruel and domestically violent husband of Little Mo Slater, Trevor Morgan, from 2000-2002 until he met his maker in a house fire he had planned to kill Mo and her family.
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Olivia Colman was honoured with two awards at this evening’s Arqiva British Academy Television Awards for Supporting Actress for her role as Sue in Accused (Mo’s Story) and for Female Performance in a Comedy Programme for her portrayal as Sally in Twenty Twelve, a programme which also collected an award for Situation Comedy.

Steve Coogan received the award for Male Performance in a Comedy Programme and The Revolution will be Televised won the Comedy Programme category.

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There are some programmes that feel like they just fit in the Bank Holiday schedules. Mystery drama Jonathan Creek is definitely one of those programmes due to its light nature and intriguing plots. This one-off special is also a sort of set-up for a brand new series of three episodes coming next year. It introduces us to a new-look Jonathan Creek who has grown-up, albeit only slightly, and is no longer living in that windmill. However we have to wait quite a while for Jonathan to actually appear on screen as we are first presented with the episode’s central mystery.

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Mrs Biggs and Two Pints of Larger And A Packet Of Crisps star Sheridan Smith is set to begin a new relationship with Sherlock star, Andrew Scott, in a new Channel 4 drama series focussing on the quest for love.

Smith, who played the title role in last year’s ITV hugely popular hit drama, Mrs Biggs, based on the story of Charmian Biggs, the wife of notorious Great Train Robber, Ronnie Biggs, is set to star in this new drama alongside several other high-profile names, each one playing the role of hopefuls seeking love by going on a string of set-up dates.
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With the 18th National Television Awards only two weeks away all the votes in the public choice categories have been counted and a short list has now been released for you to vote for your favourites!

The National Television Awards is a celebration of the last year on our television sets from soap’s to comedy, drama to factual, and whilst many of the awards are decide by an independent panel, the following 14 awards are left for you, the voting public to decide.
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If there’s one festive experience that unites us all then it’s the very British tradition of going to the pantomime something most of us did at least once during our youth. I personally remember trips to the Crewe Lyceum and the Wolverhampton Grand and seeing such stars as John Inman, June ‘Dot Cotton’ Brown, Allo Allo’s Gordon Kaye and err.. Linda Lusardi. Another person who has a very personal experience of pantomime is John Bishop who back in 2007 appeared in a production of Dick Whittington at the Salford Lowry in 2007 while he was still a jobbing DJ in Liverpool. Bishop has taken these experiences and turned them into a 90 minute comedy drama imaginatively titled Panto! in which he stars and has also co-written the script alongside Gimme Gimme Gimme scribe Jonathan Harvey.

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Panto! comes to ITV tonight, Thursday, 27 December at 9:00PM, which was devised and co-written by comedian John Bishop with acclaimed Coronation Street and theatre writer Jonathan Harvey.

Panto! is a single film starring Bishop alongside Sheridan Smith (Mrs Biggs, Gavin & Stacey), Samantha Spiro (Grandma’s House, Cor Blimey), Mark Benton (Waterloo Road, Early Doors) and 1990s pop star Chesney Hawkes.

It’s the first night of pantomime ‘Dick Whittington’ at the Grand Theatre Lancaster. Lewis Loud (John Bishop), Morecambe FM’s cheeky DJ, is preparing for his stage debut as Jack the Lad. During rehearsals, romance has blossomed between him and Dick Whittington, namely token celebrity Tamsin (Sheridan Smith), better known to her fans as ‘Mad Mindy The Axe Murderer’ from the nation’s favourite soap… Read more & comment »

When I was younger the BBC always used to air an adaptation of popular children’s tale in the run-up to Christmas these included the great Chronicles of Narnia series as well as Five Children and It and The Magician’s House. As the BBC’s children’s output has evolved this tradition has died out however with tonight’s adaptation of David Walliams’ Mr Stink it feels like it may just have returned. While watching this warm, funny and traditional tale I was put in mind of the programmes of my youth and wondered why this one-off special couldn’t have been extended into a two or three part series.

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On tonight’s Jonathan Ross Christmas special Michael McIntyre confesses his kids think he swears for a living, Sienna Miller talks of her embarrassment over receiving a saucy Christmas gift from her godmother, Sheridan Smith reveals she’s after a man who can cook, Ellie Simmonds admits she had to get ready for the James Bond premiere in the Queen’s toilet, Jamie Oliver teaches his fellow guests to make some festive treats and Charlotte Church provides Christmas tunes.

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Fans of Jonathan Creek will be pleased to know that the hit BBC1 detective show is due to return next year in a one-off Easter special, the Sun newspaper reports!

Alan Davies, who is currently involved in the legal battle over the false accusations that Lord McAlpine was a child abuser, is returning to reprise his title role for the special, and will be joined by Sheridan Smith and Joey Ross for the 90-minute show, entitled The Clue Of The Savant’s Thumb.
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Mrs Biggs star, Sheridan Smith has teamed up with funny man Johnny Vegas to star in a TV adaptation of the David Walliams kid’s novel, Mr Stink!

Britain’s Got Talent judge, Walliams, made the announcement of Sheridan’s, who is currently dating Amy Winehouse’s ex, Reg Traviss, and Vegas’, who starred in the hit ITV comedy, Benidorm, involvement in the project on social networking site, Twitter, earlier today, tweeting: “Sheridan Smith and Johnny Vegas are playing the mum and dad in ‘Mr Stink’. Exciting!”
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Whilst the nation is gripped to the current ITV drama, Mrs Biggs, which tells the story of the long-suffering wife of Great Train robber, Ronnie Biggs, not many of us feel much sympathy towards her husband.

Ronnie and Charmian Biggs married when Charmian was only 17, and pregnant. Before meeting Biggs she had lead a respectable crime-less life, living with her strict parents. After meeting Ron, she ended up in with a criminal record and lost the respect, and all contact with her parents after she ran away to marry him.

The pair then led a relatively simple life together, having two young boys, and were generally happy, until Ronnie got involved in the Great Train Robbery and ended up being sent to prison for 30 years.
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Mrs Biggs star, Sheridan Smith, has gone public with her new boyfriend, Reg Traviss, for the first time.

Sheridan, who famously dated her Gavin and Stacey on-screen brother, James Corden, began seeing Reg, who famously dated tragic Amy Winehouse before and up until her death, for a short time, but a string of photos of them together suggest that they are now officially an item, despite Reg awaiting trial for rape!
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If you are anything like us, you will be hooked to the current ITV1 drama, Mrs Biggs – the, till now, untold story of Charmian Biggs, the wife of the great train robber, Ronnie.

Mrs Biggs tells the story of the infamous train robbers life, born to upper-class parents, and banished from their lives after marrying Biggs, and the real Mrs Biggs, Charmian Brent, will appear in the drama.
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